Legal Opinion
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, and United Transportation Union
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 1985No. 84-3177PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers sued the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, lost, and appeals, presenting us with interesting questions under the Railway Labor Act.
In the glory days of the railroads, generally a worker became a locomotive engineer by promotion from the ranks of the firemen after having been a fireman for at least three years, and his seniority as an engineer dated from the promotion, not from when he had become a fireman. His seniority as a fireman, of course, dated from when he had become a fireman, and this was sometimes important, because…
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